Danielle Dobson Photo

Here are some A’s to your Q’s about our Glamour fees:

Why are your Glamour sessions more expensive than your boudoir sessions?

There are a couple differences between my Glamour and Boudoir sessions.

Glamour marathons includes professional hair and makeup. This adds about 45 minutes to our time together, therefore we are unable to do as many sessions in one day. It is, of course, a higher fee for my makeup artist to do hair as well.

Editing is more labour intensive. Once you leave your session, I spend hours perfecting your images in post production. That’s right, hours. I show only edited photographs to my clients in their viewing gallery, so even the images you do not choose for your disc, are edited to perfection.

I do edit and retouch my boudoir session images, but I generally do the editing after my client chooses her favourites.

Why is the disc so expensive?

The disc. Yes, why is the disc so expensive?  You may ask, why are prints cheaper than the digital image? It doesn’t cost you anything! I will tell you now, that the disc is extremely valuable.

Let’s take a look at how photographers used to run a business. They used to shoot everything on film, develop the photographs into 4×6 proofs, and you would choose your favourites to be printed into the sizes you want from the negatives.

Photographers would not sell the negatives, or they would, but for a very high fee.  If you can imagine, the negatives were their “backup files” of your photographs. If you ever decided down the road, that you wanted another photograph from the collection, they would be paid for and printed from those same negatives. So if the photographer sold you the negatives, and you lost them, that’s it! There would be no way for you to get more copies. Nowadays, I could make 100 copies of the “negative” and it would not damage the integrity of the shot.

If you receive the disc from me, I am basically handing over the “negative” and it will never expire. You could make a hundred copies of that image digitally, back it up, and never lose it. Plus, I back everything up twice on my end. Your images are always in 2-3 places at once, in case of a hard drive crash. I do charge a small replacement fee if you lose the disc, but if you don’t, you will never come back to me to purchase more. Once I sell the disc, that sale is over. You have the power to make as many prints as you want! So you can see how valuable the disc is. If you value the service your photographer is putting on that disc for you, pay for that service.

I love putting real, hard copy prints and products into my clients’ hands, but if you want the disc, I won’t deny it from you. I want you to be extremely happy with your decision to do a session with me, and I work very hard to ensure this.